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■H.||||*»|| I ini'. The Cleveland By IT. B. WOODWARD. DEVOTED TO the Njnino, agricultural and educational interest* of Cleveland, white county and north^ht aBondri TEEMRi—One Dollar Per Year. VOL. I. CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 29, 1892. NUMBER 30 The miners of the world produce twonty-five tons of gold every week. Hut the precious metal remains as rare ai ever. “Whet the farmers become bley cltata,” predicts the New York Mail and Express, “it won't be long before the country has good roads." A London journal estimates that a dentist who is busy six hours a day cau make $5000 a year by extracting teeth at twenty-five cents each and filling them for $1 each. More than one-third or the total num ber of sailing vessels building in the United Kingdom are in course of con atruction on the banks of the River Clyde, Scotlaud. The new debt of the city of New York is $98,000,000. Philadelphia and Brooklyn combined hav« the same amount of debt, nnd substantially the same population aa New York. Spaniards are now said to be the most predominant among the criminals an rested for stealing in large shops o» pocket picking on racecourses or at great public gatherings. President Elliot, of Harvard Culver sity, says that “the immigrants who come to our shores from abroad will be found to have received a better common school training than the average rural copulation in this country.” For sportsmen New Zealand seems to possess decided advantages. It offers, wo aro told, seine of the best trout fish ing in the world. Moreover, deer are in. creasing bo fast iu some of the open mountainous country that wo shall soon add deer stalking. Wild pigs abound but they frequent such rough ground that they must be hunted on foot, whioh aooms to dampen the ardor of most Eng lish sportsmen. Quail shooting is-good and plentiful, and duck and pheasant shooting Is good in certain parte. There are many districts with their pac cs of harriers, and in some of the better settled districts hunting Is indulged in with much zest. Horseflesh and horaekeep being cheap, whatever eport there ie «wt NEW EVERY MORNING. Avery il«y is a fresh beginning; Every morn im the world made new; You who nre weary of sorrow and sinning, Here is a beautiful hope for you; A hope for me aud a hope for you. All the past things are past and over: The tasks are done and the tears are shed. Yesterday s errors let yesterday rover; Yesterday's wounds, which smarted nn<] bled. Are healed with the healing which night has shed. Yesterday now is a part of forever, Bound up.in a sheaf, which God holdt tight. With glad days, and sad days, and bad days which never Bhall visit us more with their bloom and their blight, Their fullness of sunshine or sorrowful night. Let them go, since we cannot relieve them, Cannot uudo and cannot atone; God iu His mercy receive, forgive them; Only the new days aro our own; To-day is our*, aud to-day aloue. Here are the skies all burnished brightly; Here is the spent earth all reborn; Here are the tired limbs springing lightly To face the sun aud to roam iii the morn In thecllrismof dewand the cool of morn. Every day is a fresh beginning. Listen my soul to the glad refraiu, And iu spite of old sorrow and old sinuiug, Aud puizlea forecasted and possible pain, Take heart with the day and begin again. —Busan Coolidge, iu New York Weekly. JOSHUA’S “FOURTH.” 1IY HELEN FORREST GRAVES, KARS to me," said Uncle Joshua, “I’d like to see the pro cession this Fourth o’ July I” “Well, that’s easy euough," ob- rved Aunt Persia. “It goes right past the corner store,an* I guess there’s room enough on the steps for all of us to set.” “Oh, pshaw, 1 don’t ir.eau that!” de- elared the old mau. “I mean the city procession I" “Joshua Crickett,” said Auut Persia, “be ye gone cracyt” “Well, I dutmu why not,’’.said the He tuctcea Auntrorsis s arm uuaer nil aud started off at as brisk a trot ns was comfortuhlo with his years aud weight. “I’ve no idea o’ speudiu’ rnouey oil them horse cats,” said lie, “nor of leakin’ my life up ou top o’ them iron pillars that they call an elevated road.” But he had no very definite idea of instances, uor (mil lie dreamed how high the thermometer ivus ranging as the suu ascended in the lieaveus. Presently ho stopped to wipe his fore- neaa wini an expansive red silk pocket handkerchief. “Young mau,” he said to a tall per sonage who was mailing a letter in a lamp-post closo by, “whore's tills num ber on Sixth avenue, ami where does N. Smith live!" •me youug man looked at the couple; his face brightened. "Why,” cried he, “I am N. Smith, aud this is Sixth uvoutie; and this num ber”—glancing at the bit of paper—“is close by. You must be my cousin from the country.” “Your wife’s uncle," said the old man, beaming ail over—“Mr. Joshua Orick, ett. And hero’s your wife’s Aunt Persia. And how’s Luella and your darter, and the youug man that she keeps company with?” "All well, smiled the stranger, “and expecting you." “How’s that!" said Uncle Joshua. “Me aud your nuut hain't writ, bccatisii wo calculated to surprise you." “Oh, well, we rather thought you’d come to town ou tuts great aud glorious day I” said }tr. N. Smith. “This way I —this way I Oh, by-the-way, I’m just short of a postage stamp I Could you lend rac two cents!” Uncle Joshua at once produced a crumpled ODe-dollar bill. “Here, Nathaniel,” said he. “And now take us to Luella’a as soon as you can, for me and yom aunt is fairly tuck ered out a-walkin’ in this boat.” It was after dark when the old couple once more trudged up tlio grassy slope from Kewatchet Station toward the old farmhouse. Unde Joshua was very tired, and limped as he Walked. Auut Pcrsis drugged behind in a spiritless sort of way. » “And we didn’t see the procession, ttagiacreitoJ wonderfully in popularity lit France, states the Boston Transcript. At Paris, the first horse butchery was opened on July 9, 1868, and in that year 903 horses wore slaughtered. Through seventeen years the business steadily increased, and the count shows that 203,537 sollpedi were consumed in the city. On January 1, 1889, the horse butcheries numbored 132. In other cities of Franca the out put of the horse butcheries ii enormous. Hippophagy is also in great favor at Rot terdam. Horso meat is used there at human food to an extent that is unknown In Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland, as welt as in parts of Italy. It is exten sively used in Milan, whllo it is scorned in Turin. In the Inttor city only fifty- f.vo horses were slaughtered in 1888, and the flesh was used exclusively for feeding the animals of a ineuagery. A Spanish writter regrets that hippophagy is not adopted in Spain, where it would benefit numerous poor laborers, to whom ordinary meat is an article of luxury on account of its high price. In Paris, the price of horse meat is about half that of beef for corresponding outs. The official summary of the accidents and casualties which occurred in 1891 upon the railroads of the United King dom has just been issued. From this it appears that of 800,000,000 passengers carried during the year only live were killed in accidents, the smallest actual number and proportion recorded sines 1873, when six were kitlei. The num ber of passengers injured in necidunta during the year was 875. Of men employed by the railway com panies twelve were killed and 159 in jured in accidents, a much hizher pro portion. The list of passengers killed and injured by trains (otherwise thau in accidents) is much heavier, including ninety-eight dead, 737 injured. Of these sixteen were killed by falling be tween carriages and platforms, fourteen by falling on the Dlatforms or the line, and fifteen by falling out of carriages •during the traveling of trains. Crossing the line at stations was fatal to twenty- three, and ninety-eight were injured by the closing ot carriage doors. Causes other than train accidents killed no fewer than 537 of the servants ot companies or contractors, whils more than 3000 were injured. The greatest lo3s of lift occurred among the men who wero walking, crossing or standing on the line of duty. The deaths from these causes were 146, while 115 were killed while walking on the permanent way or in sidiDgs. Shunting operations killed ninety-four. Forty-two lost their lives while miking on the line. can see, we can afford the taro to New York.” “Yes,” bitterly acceded Mrs. Crickett, who was possessed of rather n minor temperament, “and nice figures wa should cut, staudiu’ on the curbstone, with Tom, Dick and Harry all a-elberin’ us an’ crowdin' us!” “I don’t calculate to stand ou no pavement," said Unole Joshua Crickett. “Ain't there our niece Luella, that mar ried Nathaniel Smith, alivin' as genteel os you please on Sixth aveuue! Can't we go there und set by the window!" “They hain’t asked us,” curtly uttered Aunt Persia. “Then we’ll surprise ’em.” “1 ain't lure it’ll be an agreeable sur prise,” said Mrs. Crickett. “Luella’a darter Jane is growed up now, and ” “She always was the sweetest little creetur goin'," said Uncle Joshua, "and I mean to leave her the farm wheu we’re done with it. I’m told she's keepiu’ company with a smart youug feller, ;,d(£ if wo'd had a sou, Persia,just think what he'd 'u done for Lire farm 1” “Hemight,und then ag’iu he mightn’t, ” said Mrs. Cricket, mournfully. “Well,” observed Unole Joshua, who was ijuite accustomed to this sort of figurative wet blanketing, “anyhow, I mean to go ana see the procession in New York, this year, if there don’t nothin’ happen. You jest hake a chicken, Persia, and some cinnamon cookies, and pack u basket with them early apples und a few of the late cherries, an’ we’ll go to Luellu’s.” “But you don’t know jest where she lives." *'I css look in the directory, can’t I!” Aunt Persia shrugged Uer suouiuers. “You'll do us you've a mind to, I a’pose,” said she. “You alwaysdid.” So ou the sunshiny morning of the Fourth of July, Uncle Joshua and Aunt Persia, dressed in all their best, took the train to New York, with the wicker basket, the two umbrellas and Aunt Persia’ best gray and white blanket shawl to bear them company. “I feel exactly as though wo was goiu’ to hev a good time,” said Uncle Joshua, cheerily. “I don’t," said Aunt Persis. “I’m most sarnn we ougoc to nev writ nnd told ’em we was a cornin’.” “What time does the procession start?” said Uncle Joshua. “Right away arter breakfast, I sup pose," said his wife, “Weil, then, we hain’t no time to lose,” said Uncle Joshua, taking out a bit of paper, ou which, after long con sultation of a drug store directory, he hail written the address of his niece Luella aud her husband, Nathaniel Smith, os soon as the train ran into the Grand Central P*Mt> ‘I wouldn’t ha’ minded thqt so much,” said Auut Porsis. “But Luella has changed so I Site used to bo such u trim, trig little body. Aud then her house - keepiu’t Did ye sen tliorn blnck beetles la thu bread closet und the dirt in the corners of the room and tho nose-marks on tho winder glass? Aud she hadn't a sign of a collar on, and I don't b’lieve her hair had been combed since she got up. I didn’t bring her up no sueli way, an’ 1 wouldn’t hev believed five years COUld tt-eh (luffed nnvluulir Mini: “It's Nathaniel's influence," said Uncle Joshua. “I always supposed ho was a church member; but I must lie mistook, for lie wunted mo to play cards with him aud auotlier feller; but I wasn't to be took iu like that, if there was hay seed in iny hair. And I didn't like the looks of Jnnie and iier young man. I know the young feller drinks; I smelt it In his breath. Persis, I’m going homo to change my will. I'd rather leave my farm to Abial’s sou, out in Michigan, thau trust it with Jume aud that young man. Aud, Persis—” "Well,.Joshua?” “I wasn’t goiu’ to tell ye of it till wo got home, but I've ha 1 my pocket picked. My watch is gone uud the roll of bills iu my breast pocket, I hadn’t only jest eaougli money left to get home with." “Oh, Joshua!” “Yes, an’ I b’lieve Janie's young man did it wheu lie was so officious about helpin’ me down that last flight o’stairs, for fear 1 should fall an L/ealc my neck, as he said." “Oh, Joshua?” wailed the old woman. “All the chicken and hatter money I” “Yes, I was blamed fool enough to take it with me!” sighed Uncle Joshua. “I’d sort of a notion to give Janie eoougli for a weddiu' dress. But when I see the cut of these folks’ jib, I changed iny mind.” “Can’t we go back and tell the police I” Joshua Crickett shook his head. “No,” said he, “we can’t. I’ve made myself redidicklous enough already. I’ll jeBt swatler the loss, an’ set it down to profit and loss. Arter all, it ain’t the money so much, though we’re hard workin’ folks, and can't afford to lose it; but it goes to my heart to think Luella’a folks is run down so low as that!” And a big tear rolled over the old man’s cheek bone and lost itself in his grizzled beard. “Hullo!” he suddenly exclaimed, “what’s that! A light in tho settin’- room i Persis, I hops to goodness the old place ain't a-flre with powder- crackers and rockets from the store and rich?” “No," said Aunt Persis, straining her spectauieu eyes mto me tlarKiiesSi "it's a lamp on the table. But 1 Can't think who can have got iu, I'm sute I locked the door nnd put the key under the flat stone by the well curb." Of course you.did, aunty, durUng,iii tho old place where I knew exactly whero to find it,” interrupted a sweet, cheery voice, as a pair of arms was flung around Aunt Persia's neck. “We camo down from New York this morning to surprise you aud spend tho day here, picnic fashion, Nat nnd Janie and Will Harnett and I, and when we got hero we found the birds had flown, uo one know whither." “Luella 1” gasped Auut Persis. Luella Smith it was, true und trig as ever, in a pretty gray gown, with her shining dark hair waved away from her still girlish forehead, and a white luce frill enciroliug her plump throat, And Nathaniel, a tall, broad-shouldered mau, witli clear,brown ojes aud the pleasantest of smiles, was close behind her. “Come right, iu, Aunt Persis,” said Luella, “tea is all yeady. Will has milked the cows and Janie is down cellar skimming tho cream, and I've got a chicken, fried in the pan, as we used to like it, wheu I lived here, aud Janie bus baked biscuits. Aud Will has mended tho burs of thu orchard fence, and fixed the well-chain and put n now padlock ou the barn door, and we’vo wandered ail over the old place I” “And « splendid old place It is," said Nathaulol Smith, cheerily. "When Will ana 1 are aoie to ieav& our out grin i m the printing offices in tho city wo mean to buy a farm like this und begin to en joy ourselves.” Like two people walklug in a dream, Uncle Joshua and Aunt Persis followed their uopliew and niece iuto,the bright keeping room, - ’ and were introduced to blushing Janie and stalwart Will Harnett. “Persis,” whispered the old mau, “we’ve beeu swindled by them smooth, spoke folks in New York City, Sarves tne right for tollin' my business to every body in the public streets. But don’t let Luella’s husband . know what fools we’ve been. Don’t let’s give ourselves away. I dou’t care for the money—( don’t cave for uothin’—so long as Luella is the same Luella, and Janie’s d'ouug wno simplfj' marked, when ques tioned by ilia ifoicft and nephew-lu-law, •that “York wills a big city, an’ his old logs were pretty itired walkin’ nbout f an’ he lost his wuy, inn’ didn't ses thu pro cession arter all.y “Luella’s folkii ” had intended to re turn by the midnight train, but they wero easily induced to lemain all night; nnd when Uncle Joshua had wound up tho old clock, the last tliiug before he went to bed, he turned to his wife “Persis," said he, “I’ve made up my mind. Luella and Nathaniel, and Janie aud Mr, Harnett like the couutry. Why shouldn’t they stay here?’’ “Altogether, Joshua?” “Yes, altogether. I’m gettlu*’most too old to run the farm, uud you need some one to spare your old bones. Let’s keep the young folks here. Janic’ll make a first-class dairy woman, and 1 jest wish you’d see the way Harnett has mended thu burs and the well chain I I tell you he's got tho real grit in him. And I know, tho way they talk, they wouldn't Uko nothin’ better than to come here. I mean to speak to 'em about it.” “But, Joshua—’’ “Well, Persia!’' “We won’t never go excurssiuzing into i ora city ag in on tne fourth of July!” said Mrs. Orickett. “No," said Uncle Joshua, with rather a crest-fallen air, “we won't!”—Satur day Night. FARM AMO HOUSEHOLD. FIlOTRCTtNO RHBB1' FROM BOGS. A mode of protecting sheep froni dogs, as successfully practised by. somd oi Massachusett's farmers and reported to that State's Board of Agricultural, con sists of entrenchments of barbed wiro. As barbed wire larely does any harm td sheep, it may be successfully used foi their protection. Six wires high will nol only hold sheep, but. will turn dogs; the dogs do not tike its short points, and q six-wire feuce will not allow them pas skge botween the wires, and no othel feuce will do this. In a two-year ex periment, tho fence tout feet high and the posts a rod apart, never allowod a dog to pass. The cost of the fence was forty-four couts a rod.—New York World. CUBE FOll SCALY I,EOS. The disease known ns scabby or scaly legs in poultry is due to the presence of a small mita somewhat Uko the one which causes scab or itch in sheep. By placiug one of the scabs from tho legs of the fowls under a good microscopo, tlio mites may he readily seen, and in form they are rouudish, oval, and soml transparent. To cure tills disease take equal parts of lard uud kerosoue, and ap ply with u soft, brush to tho nffeotod parts. Apply this freely, for it will do uo harm while softening the scabs and destroying the mites. Another excellent remedy is au ointment mudo by rnlxiug ouo ounce of carbolic add witli twenty ounces of common iard. The disease is a very unsightly one among fowls,hut so readily mired that there is really uo ex case for leaving It to run its course iu poultry yard or elsewhere.—Now York Bun, A Hen “Set*” *n • Snake. Since lie visited the last poultry bIiow iu New York, Andrew Meredith, of O’ornwall-on-the-Hudsoii, has been im pressed with the idea that his hens have been wasting their time iu hatchiug out ordinary farmyard eggs. Ho wanted to improve his breed of fowl; so, about a month ago, he purchased a setting ot Lnugshnns lor $4 from u Buffalo dealer, and placed them under au “old relia ble” Plymouth Rock hen. He set her iu a room over his barn aud allowed no body to disturb her. After the lieu had set for nearly a month with tho dogged perseverance of her kind, without any results, Mr. Meredith began to cute-tain dark suspicions about the probity of the Buffalo man, and yesterday lie lifted tlio hen from her nest to examine tlio eggs. He was shocked to find n large black snake coiled among a lot ot broken shells. The reptile was half torpid, it had eaten all the eggs and the lien had sat upon it, probably for at least n fort night, and kept it warm aud comforta ble while it digested its food. After Mr. Meredidth had killed if she wunted to sit upon its dead body.—New York Tribune It is calculated that sirice the begin ning of time the world has had sixty-six quadrillions of inhabitants LATE TURKEYS. “Iii tuo lust fifteen years,” writes Jen nie Watson, of Illinois, “I have owned several turkey beet that have, while taking cure of the first early brood, laid eggs, and than hatched a second brood toward the lattor part of summer. I think vigorous licus will often do so if allowed to sit early. It makes tho youug turkey* rather late, but with good quar ters aud good care, they oau bf sold in ■FAbBMs'feiuLthey wiU then he, six" ” tho higher prices to be obtained at that season, will generally bring more than than early ones marketed before the Ohristmas holidays. If from lack of proper care they aro not salable in Feb ruary, they oau he kept over, and make plump, heavy birds for thu early winter market. Borne of tho heaviest and most aalablo larkoys that I have ever sent to market havo been such very late broods, wintered over without extra cure. Suoh hens will always be in domnud by overy buyer who wants a Thanksgiving or a Christmas roast, you may he sure; aud the gobblers will not he overlooked.’’— American Agriculturist. FARM AND OARDEN NOTES. Professor L. II. Bailey says that the Lunretia is by far the most prominent of tlio dewberries. A wise breeder selects his breed and then atioke to it, not changing witli any passing wliim or fashion. The old double feverfew is easily grown and the flowers are valuable in the cut state, being very onduriug. If you give quinces a good soil, rich cultivation, and careful pruning, tho fruit will almost always ire grown at profit. Qeneiatly speaking, the easiest and cheapest way to increase crops is to deopen the soil in which they are grown. The cow that is about to drop a call should imvu hone nnd muscle-forming food instead of high feeding to prornoto milk secretion. Trees should always he set about aa deep us they stood in the nursery, or two or three inches deeper, to allow for the settling of the earth. Btock that is fed lightly and notgiven much water for a day or two before shipping will shrink less than if stuffed to their full capacity. The Americau apple appears to be gaining great popularity across the ocean. Htatistici show that 1,300,000 barrels of this fruit were sent to England during this season. When you see little veins of butter milk cropping out of the butter that means a low price for your butter aud a big price for groceries when you go to “swap it off.” If a merchant should sell his goods without first knowing their cost, he would soon go into bankruptcy. Farmers are selling goods every day without knowing their cost. A good many industrious people make' more than a living from ton acres of land. Yet somo fail to do well Irons a hundred. The difference must be the man and his methods. Bgirs ti)qt are keot On clover throuzt) the summer will put on flesh very fast whon thoy get new corn. Begin gradu ally, and as sqpu as they are used to it feed *11 they will eat. the best way to determine Just what crops are the most profitable is to ascer tain exactly the cost of producing each. This can be done by keeping a daily ac count of labor and expenses. RECIPE*. Iced Cherries—Beloct large fresh cher ries with tho stems'onraud dip them into the whites of two eggs well beaton and then Into powdered sugar. Lav tnem on oiled paper until they ire dry, thou pile them high iu a glass or silver dish. Cheese Fritters— Bqat the white of an egK only partly, then grate Into it as much dry cheese as the egg will hold. Make iuto round balls about thu size of a good-sized butterball and roll in egg and bread crumbs twice. Fry iu very hot lard by putting your wire baskot in and taking it out again as quickly as possible. Apple Pies—Mi* the crust with sour croam lu each cup!ill of which a pinch of pcarlash lias beon dissolved. Sprinklt a little suit iu the flour, mix soft, nnd roll of medium thickness. ^JEiU-wlth good tart apples, sliced; add two table- spoousfnl of molasses, a tiny pluch each nf salt and nutmeg. Cover after cutting holes in the top crust for the oscapo ol steam. Fish Cakes—Cold f'uh ot any kind; stale bread well crumbled; oue otiioB; sweet herbs, dried or fresli; cold pota toes ; one or two eggs accor.Ung to (plan, tlty of llsli aud potatoes used ; a little good stock or milk; one-fourth of a pound of drippiug. Procoas: Flake the fish; or in other words, puli it to pieces with a couple of forks, aud remove tlio honest mash the potatoos, ii they lit cold bailed potatoos aud not already mashed; moisten them with the milk or slock; add the fish, the herbs and tho onions chopped very flue aud mixed weU together. Beat up the egg nr eggs, and 1 udd it to tho mixture already made, form- lng tlie mass into small cakes or balls. Set tlio dripping over the fire in n frying pan, and when baling put hi the eakqj i ■■ t CHILDREN'S COLUMN* A lUtNY WAV, Rain, rain, go away; * • I'liuibo's in despair. ■ knee a^alii another day . When tho trees arc bare; When tlie skies aro gloomy. When the birds Lave flown, When tliere’s not a blossmii Tlie bee can call ills own; When tlio leaves are flying All about the lawn, When tlie wind is sigblug For tlie summer gone,— That's the time for raining, No matter how It pours. And Phoebe then is quite content To play all day Indoors. —[10. L. Sylvestor, in St, Nicholas. A LITTLE CHINESE GIRL. Men, tlio daughter of tho (Jhlnoao minister in 'Washington, Is a person of much interest nt tlio national enpi. tal. .She is only a your old and oaq scarcely toddle. Chinose otiquettq forbids tlio attaches of tho legation tg reooguizo tho mlnisior’s wife und bUi tor-in-law, even though thoy pita*) thoso lndios on the stairs. But they cxohnnge salutations with tho Infant. Men’s name means “Beautiful Amori- ca.” As yot her tiny foot aro nntrami melloil, but whon she roachos tho agq of throo years, tho bandaging which [8 to restrict tholr size will bogill.— [Boston Transcript. and fry ,thi brbwntlttt ■ir The Largest Bites Stake. The largest glass globe ever made was; that erected in the grand machinery palace at the Paris Exhibition in 1889, which at a height of forty feet contained 20,000 incandescent lights. The ma chinery palace or hall was 1890 feet in length 150 feet high, covered aa area of 60,000 square yards, and its roof had a span of 870 feet clear. Another large glass globe is the electric moon at thoj Lick Observatory, on the top of Mount Hamilton, twolve miles from San Jose, the original capital of California. The electric light which it contains is of 24,- 000 candle power. Glass can now be manufactured iu pieces of very largo size. Tbe Kokomo (Ind.) Glass Works recently turned out a monster sheet of perfectly transparent window-glas3 be lieved to be tbo largest ever manufac tured. It measured 145 feet by 195 inches and weighed 2000 pounds. If this wero flint or crown glaBS tlio globe into which tho glass was first blown would have a diameter of fifty feet or seventeen yards. But sheet glass is blown into a cylindrical form and thoa slit longitudinally and plate gloss Is poured out in a molted state ou a table. —Yankee Blade. A QUEER I’ET. Nod is just six, aud is nil authority on pots, lie lias hnd auy number of dogs, cals, a pot pony, and a family of turtles have holpcd to destroy tlio domostio peaco at Nod’s homo, but now lie is very iudlireront to.all his pets but one—and such a onol lie is, a companion and confidant for hlqi small mastor, and such a very digui-j fled companion—so different from' romping Carlo or frisky Fldo. TTjis new pet is a toll and stataly roostor, witli tlie most “boo’ful rod chlu." ! Did you over hoar of the pride of tlie barnyard us a pet? Well, llmt L exactly witli his door of the , wheu the door is j-ii*' with a troubled , aikt''iiome>- [Now Advertiser. - — — SPARROWS. Two kinds of uativo sparrows aro to be mot with ovory day in tho gar den—the song-sparrow and tlio chippy.; Tho former is nearly as largo as thej English sparrow, aud wears tho spotted brown dress of his race; his distinguishing mark being a splash of biuck on the centre of his broast. His cheery, distinct and ofl-repeatod song is easily learned and one is quite like ly to come upon his nost in May/filled i with greenish spotted eggs and sunk into a tuft of grass in tho orchard. Tho chippy, however, is far moro sociable. It comes long before the 1 buds havo fairly opeued, and waits, about tlie doory ard until tho leaves are out sufiicienlly to conceal its small, hair-lined nest and spotted green treasures hidden in tho lilao or rpo- hush. Tlio chippy Is smaller than a canary, 1ms a brown back, an ashen,. unspotted breast, and a cap of chest nut red. Ilis only song is a fiuo, flut tering thrill.—[Detroit Free l’ross. What I* Known About Fish. Pliny, the great naturalist, who lived •t about the time of Christ, reckoned the whole number of known speoios of fish at ninety-four. Linnaeus, tho great Swedish investigator of tlio eighteenth century, could classify 4S7, and lie is known to have been the greatest ichfchy- ologist of the ago in which ho lived. The progress made in that particular branch since the time of Linmeus scorns all the more wonderful, for now, since the expedition* of the Challengor ami others, 13,000 species show up iu the catalogues of the fish specialists I—St. Louis Republic. Valuahljs Holes. A hole is it hard thiug to put into a collection of minerals, but there are a few holes in certain cabinets that ure among the most prized of their contents. It rajst be added, however, thut they have enough surrounding material to prove that they are Holes. They are called fulgurites, and t Hey are made by ligHtning. A thunderbolt striking into a sand lieup or sandy soil is sometimes hot euough to vitrify, or turn iuto glasa the silicious matter that it penetrates,so that you have a glass tube jus: as big around as a lightning flash. The largest of these, tubes known is about three feot in diameter, but commonly they aro less than au inch iu thickness. They have been known to penetrate sand for a dis- tans* ot thirty feet,—Minerals. t STRANGE CREATURES. Ono of tlio most unfortunate ani mals in tho world is tho babakoto, or, as grown-up people with lots of timo lo sparo like to call him, Iudris brovicandntuB. 1 call him unfortunate, because he labors under tho disadvan tage of rosembling n monkey without tho chief joy of tlio monkey's life— the ono that compensates tlio monkey for Ids lack ol bounty—whioh is, in, brief, tho ability to swing about ou troos with liia tall. The reason why' the babakoto cannot swing by his tail is dial lie lias uo tail worth mentioning, and it is no doubt due to this fact that all tlio babakoto can do is to sit on a treo and whimper and wail. If you wish to see the babakoto ill tho full luxury of liis woo, you must go to Madagascar, whither he lias gone to live, to bo rid,; no doubt, of tlio saucy upos of Central Africa, who aro said to havo made cutting and uncomplimentary remarks about liis caudal shortcomings. A letter from one of my correspond-, outs tells mo of a kitten up in Maine, that chews milk. It is a very singular, tiling for a kitten to do, but, after all. bow does it exceed in quoernoss tho. habit of somo little girls I know wlio( masticate their ioe oreara before swal lowing it, instead of prolonging tho, delight by letting it molt in their, mouths, and trickle slowly and softly down iuto their throats? —[Harper’S Young Pooplc. The great cathedral in tho City ot Mexico is the largest in America and cost nearly $a.QO0,QDO,